Rosa Koire’s journey from local land use activism to her discovery of UN Agenda 21, a global incremental plan implemented locally; the International Council of Local Environmental Issues, or ICLEI, to de-industrialize the world; regionalization and the destruction of boundaries; transit villages and food sheds; SMART stands for sustainability, monitoring, assessing, rating and tracking; mixed-use high-density urban development; civil liberties restricted under the guise of environmental concerns; powers behind Agenda 21 committed to “sustainable” goals; mega-corporate model; mega-regions driving the economy and overpowering the nation state; Bruntland Commission; islands of human habitation; Wildlands Project; American standard of living being taken down; restrictions on rural property and farm lands; economic collapse; austerity and scarcity; technology the enabler of U.N. Agenda 21.

Aired: February 3, 2021

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Guns and Butter 430

Behind the Green Mask - Rosa Koire, #430

Dunk and Keys bring on author Chade Lalapin to discuss the hardest working team in sports history, the 2004 Detroit Pistons.

003 - Pulling the Chair with Dunk and Keys

The UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals integrate many of the components of the 2010 Rockefeller Report including the Lockstep Scenario; population reduction; World Health Organization (WHO); Event 201; global vaccination program; cascading economic collapse; the multiple trillion dollar bailout known as the CARES Act; the new US Treasury and Federal Reserve relationship; special purpose vehicles (SVPs); bottomless well of liquidity at the Fed; the Fed hires Blackrock; supply chain disruptions; debt deflation; Universal Basic Income (UBI); collapse of oil prices; massive shift of capital to the top; the coming mega-depression; food insecurity leading to famine; World Bank and International Monetary Fund; unemployment and bankruptcies; privatization; who benefits.

Aired: May 27, 2020

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Guns and Butter 422

Global Economic Lockdown - with Peter Koenig and Ellen Brown, #422

We discuss Diana Johnstone’s memoir, "Circle in the Darkness"; Yugoslavia under Tito; bombing of Serbia; Camp Bondsteel; spook revelation journalism; Paris in 1968; anti-war movement of the ‘60s; legacy of Charles de Gaulle; Europe occupied since WWII; the Greens; Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties; neoliberal counterrevolution in the 1980s; finance capital; internationalism v nationalism; privatization; financial institutions living off of sovereign debt; austerity; Yellow Vests a revival of an economic left; Antifa enforcing the establishment position; Responsibility to Protect (R2P) a rule to break national sovereignty; destruction of Libya by NATO; new phase of capitalism called ‘green’; censorship of intellectual discussion.

Aired: June 24, 2020

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Guns and Butter 423

Memoir of a World Watcher - Diana Johnstone, #423

“The Crash of Flight 3804”, Charlotte Dennett’s new book, chronicles her decades-long investigation into the death of her father, the highest ranking American intelligence officer in the Middle East, in a mysterious plane crash in Ethiopia in 1947 on his return from a secret mission to Saudi Arabia for the Central Intelligence Group; the intrigue and treachery of Middle East oil pipeline politics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries; the Berlin to Baghdad Railway; ARAMCO; pipeline and airline routes; Iran hostage crisis; secular Arab nationalism; UNOCAL pipeline; Genie Oil; trans-Yemen pipeline; notorious British spymaster Kim Philby; the partition of Palestine.

Aired: August 5, 2020

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Guns and Butter 424

Follow the Pipelines:  The Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil - Charlotte Dennett, #424

Originally Broadcast on October 3 2020 on Rokfin.com - Whitney is joined by repeat guest Robbie Martin of Media Roots to discuss the first presidential debate as well as the new "warnings" and predictions from suspect national security officials that a bioterror attack on US soil is imminent in the months ahead.

The Debate Debacle and 2020's "Darkest Winter" with Robbie Martin

Ellen Brown’s articles, "Meet BlackRock the New Great Vampire Squid", and "From Lockdown to Police State the Great Re-Set Rolls Out", are discussed; the relationship between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Central Bank; reserve requirement for banks eliminated; the repo market; the discount window at the Fed thrown open in March 2020; the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, administered by BlackRock Financial Management on behalf of the Federal Reserve through eleven Special Purpose Vehicles; Blackrock’s Aladdin software data platform; Fed lending against riskier assets than allowed under the Federal Reserve Act; exchange traded funds (ETFs) iShares bought by BlackRock; advantages of public banking; liquidity crises the cause of crashes; quadrillion in derivatives outstanding; World Economic Forum a public/private partnership; great global re-set a re-characterization of the new world order; global digital currency; corporatocracy.

Aired: September 23, 2020

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Guns and Butter 425

Financial System In Transition - Ellen Brown, #426

Historian Marcia Chatelain on the economic and social dynamics of fast food corporations and Black American life, and her book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" from Liveright. 

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493942

1283: McDonald's in Black America / Marcia Chatelain

William Callison and Quinn Slobodian on their article "Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol" for Boston Review.

https://bostonreview.net/politics/william-callison-quinn-slobodian-coronapolitics-reichstag-capitol

1285: Crisis diagonalism / William Callison + Quinn Slobodian

Welcome to the Nazbol Vortex, where Breadtubers, Boogaloo Boys, and Q-Anon battle it out for engagement. In this episode, we talk about streamers and podcasters, Twitter posters, pseudonyms, Jacobin's "irony" and the DSA/CIA activism trap. Honorable mention to Sam Seder and the Majority Report and their old friends at the Daily Kos. Thanks to Jason Selvig of The Good Liars for the intro!

Socialism Train Episode 003: The Nazbol Vortex (Part 1)

The story of two men competing for the world Donkey Kong championship becomes a metaphor for so much in society, from celebrity culture to institutional power. We revisit THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS (2007) and celebrate two universal archetypes: Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. PLUS: fiery hot takes on the Golden Globes, the Democrats' impending midterm strategy, and the lingering discourse on the Bernie mittens meme.

"PIXEL BURN - A King, Konquered: The Fall of Billy Mitchell" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNLqrOqUtEM&ab_channel=Bitscreed

Michael and Us

#207 - A Fistful of Quarters

Guns and Butter investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Show list: http://gunsandbutter.snappages.com/archived-show-list.htm.  

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